Head of Product (Remote) at Fincra

Fincra is a payment infrastructure for fintechs, platforms and global businesses. Fincra provides payments solutions that enables businesses to accept payments securely, make payouts globally and scale your business across borders.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: Head of Product

Location: Lagos
Employment Type: Full-Time | Fully Remote
Reporting Line: Chief Executive Officer/Chief Technology Officer.

Role Overview

• The Mission of the role is to guide the success of a product and work with a cross-functional team that is responsible for improving it.
• This role sets the strategy, roadmap, and feature definition for a product or product line. The position may also include marketing, forecasting, and profit and loss (P&L) responsibilities.
• The Head of Product will provide the deep product expertise needed to lead the organization and make strategic product decisions.
• S/he will analyze market and competitive conditions, laying out a product vision that is differentiated and delivers unique value based on customer demands.
• The role spans many activities from strategic to tactical and provides important cross-functional leadership  most notably between engineering, marketing, sales, operations and support teams.
• The ideal person will be responsible for defining the why, when, and what of the product that the engineering team builds. This means s/he will drive the cross-functional teams from a product’s conception all the way through to its launch and afterwards till product retirement.

What You’ll Be Expected to do at Fincra

• Define the product strategy and roadmap.
• Deliver MRDs and PRDs with prioritized features and corresponding justification.
• Work with external third parties to assess partnerships and licensing opportunities.
• Run beta and pilot programs with early-stage products and samples.
• Create and own the roadmap; prioritise initiatives according to aggregate needs, with defensible reasoning that aligns stakeholders.
• Energize and work collaboratively with the design and engineering teams.
• Monitor and communicate updates on product priorities to internal and external stakeholders.
• Document ideas and plans; be the face of the product working directly with partners and our users.
• Draw out feedback from our users on their experience with using our existing products.
• Align teams on a shared vision and steer the company towards the execution of that vision.
• Drive the decision-making process across all the aspects of product development (strategy, design, technology, launch)
• Define, monitor and analyze metrics to guide product improvements.
• Work with our external partners to deliver solutions that will solve problems for our users
• Drive progress across product initiatives by removing blockers from the team and going the extra mile to ensure that the product objectives are met
• Make several decisions daily on the best path to success for our product objectives.
• Thrive in a collaborative environment involving different stakeholders and subject matter experts.
• Capture market competitive and trend data, customer and community feedback and usage information to develop product insights.

What You Bring Along

• Background in Computer Science or any other related field.
• Strong experience (ideally 5+ years) in product management.
• Experience with products offered both via SaaS and self-managed.
• Experience with the development of payment platforms.
• Experience defining requirements for and contributing to the design of enterprise platform API’s.
• Experience with one or more of the common use cases for the Payouts, Collections and Agency Banking.
• Excellent written and spoken communications skills.
• Solid understanding of B2B business models and sales motions.
• Curiosity and an open mind.
• Humble attitude -we are here for the success of the team and the company.
• Empathy, transparency, and a good sense of ownership.

What We Look for In You:

• Can turn incomplete, conflicting, or ambiguous inputs into solid, manageable tasks and action plans.
• Do whatever it takes to make your product and team successful, no matter how big or small the issue may be, whatever that means.
• Hunting down the root cause of a user’s frustration.
• Take an evidence-based and data-driven approach to making decisions.
• Have excellent organisation skills to ensure that your team is focused and operating efficiently.
• You are a clear and empathetic communicator both verbally and in your writing.
• Are motivated by the opportunity to improve the lives of our users.
• Have a deep and unrelenting customer focus.
• Are a creative product thinker who loves collaborating across the company with engineering, analytics, marketing, design and sales.
• Obsess about continuous product improvement and can optimize for shipping a portfolio of small, medium and large releases beyond just shipping new products.
• Experience managing large scale enterprise platforms.

Perks

• A chance to be an early member of a high-growth startup.
• We pay competitively in the Nigerian market for the matched experience and role.
• Amazing work culture and a company that truly cares about creating the best and most fun place to work.
• We offer health insurance that includes dental, optical & covers major surgeries.
• Interest-free staff loans upon confirmation.
• We currently work fully remote.
• Stock options for early employees.
• Annual Training budget.

Application Closing Date
Not Specified.